Apologies for not citing the writer, but apparently I didn't save the post I had intended to. Just a small correction for someone regarding the labels usually used for the 9 movable clefs.
C on the bottom line is usually called the Soprano Clef. That's the clef Bach used for his soprano voice parts and sometimes for his violin parts, as well as the right hand parts of his keyboard music fairly often. The C on the second line is usually called the mezzo-soprano clef, used mainly for voices in a slightly lower range, and used by Bach for the various d'amore woodwinds, often pitched in A. And the G clef first turns up in 15th century sacred music on parts intended for boys (pueri), not in baroque violin parts. In fact you may have been thinking of the so-called French Violin clef, with G on the bottom line, which in fact was used more often for flute parts than for violin parts. The trend has been toward simplification, with some efforts at simplification defying the use of only treble or bass clef even today. The ranges of horns and some saxes are difficult to notate in concert-pitch scores using G or F clefs, since they actually span a range that's perfect for one of the C clefs. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
